Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 102
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Last week’s show related Openness and Open-endedness to Being Creative and Entrepreneurial.
It’s a fundamental quality for living your most Creative life, to be present to what’s in front of you; willing to give it a try; curious about why this is.
I started with the importance of Open ended play for children. Over the years I have read and reviewed a number of research projects on the impacts of Open ended play and the results seem conclusive to me.
Children who regularly engage in Open end play show:
+Enhanced creativity and imagination
+Improved problem-solving abilities
+Development of social and emotional skills
+Increased independence and self-reliance
+Greater enjoyment and engagement in learning activities
I mentioned on-air that my wife Marie and I feel very fortunate that we raised our three daughters before the 24×7 digital on-line madness transformed the act of parenting radically. Yes, children need to be away from screens. I would be foolish to offer advice beyond put your phone down and take them by the hand and go outside and tell them to make up a new name for the first object they spy.
Another aspect of Openness with Creative value I learned at FGI, the former Chapel Hill marketing services agency. This was pre-digital as well, the point being that when designers or creative directors were laying out a new ad or brochure they couldn’t drop in a photo or other image they found on-line to represent the final art.
Instead they would make a pencil sketch, some rougher than others, none near completion.
It amazed me for years that I always preferred pencil sketch to the final piece of art.
Now, our designers were world class, so it wasn’t that they failed to execute, not at all. I realized many years later, as I began to teach, that I preferred the sketch because it was rough, unfinished, and my imagination was called upon to finish it. To get a useful understanding of the image I got invested in it.
A last open ended tip: Use Could more than Should.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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